Ross Stewart on Wigan win, Charlton Athletic and finishing the season strong

Ross Stewart has stressed the importance of Saturday's win over promotion rivals Wigan Athletic. The Black Cats made light work of the second placed Latics, to end a dismal run of results.

Sunderland must now put together a string of results to try and claw back lost ground on the automatic promotion places, or consolidate their play-off berth at the very least. The 25-year-old believes the Wearsider's can take faith from the win over Wigan and put in a good performance against Charlton this weekend.

Speaking to Sunderland's official website, Stewart said: "It was a really important result [against Wigan]. Obviously it stopped the bad run of results that we had. It was a big game and a good following from the fans. It was nice to get the win.

"It's going to be another tough game. It's always going to be a tough place to go. We've shown on Saturday that we can win on the road, and win on the road well. We've trained well this week and we'll prepare for that properly. Whoever is out there Saturday can hopefully go and win the game."

Alex Neil picked up his first three points of his Sunderland tenure and Stewart believes his Scottish compatriot has already made an impact in such a short space of channel. Stewart said: "I think he's had a really positive impact. You can see in training, an intensity to training. He's already getting his ideas across to the squad and how he wants us to play.

"I think you saw that on Saturday. Tactically, he set us up very well and when we carried it out we got joy from it. We got a really good result against a good, good team in this league."

Stewart has surpassed all expectations since arriving at the Stadium of Light as an unknown quantity over a year ago. The Scottish striker has 22 goals